GearVR Manifest Issues? "OperationFailedException: No activity in the manifest with action MAIN..."

I'm using 2017.1.0f3 and Oculus Utilities version 1.15 to attempt to 'Build & Run' a simple 360 video player prototype to a Note 4, which used to work fine with past apps built to GearVR - so I'm pretty sure it's not an issue with any USB drivers, developer mode etc. The app runs fine when I launch it manually via dragging a built .apk on the device and opening, so I believe it is not an osig issue either.

Here is the console error I receive:

And another parallel error:

And here is what my manifest file looks like - I pulled it from a previous working build that didn't have this issue, albeit in Unity 5.6 - which I have since tested and not working with this build.

I'm up to date on all Android SDK, JDK, NDK.

Any thoughts on what could be causing this?

 

I'm having the same issue. It goes away if I change it to <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER>, but that's no longer allowed and crashes the app on launch. Did you ever find a solution?

 

add this to the main activity in the android manifest file

android:label="@string/app_name"


and then change
<category android:name="android.intent.category.INFO"/>

to
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>

Apparently for Oculus store releases it has to be on INFO but it won't run for debug purposes unless on LAUNCHER, I don't know if this is documented anywhere

 

The fact that to publish on the Oculus Store the App Manifest must have android.intent.category.INFO, instead of android.internet.category.LAUNCHER is documented and explained here:
https://developer.oculus.com/distribute/latest/concepts/publish-mobile-manifest/

I have noticed that when you select in the Unity Editor Tools > Oculus > Create store-compatible AndroidManifest.xml, it will create a file called AndroidManifest.xml at this location: Assets/Plugins/Android/AndroidManifest.xml, and it will use android.intent.category.INFO, etc, in it, which overrides the default Unity-created Manifest. The documentation is here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/and...386.468602356.1514460299-476734149.1499844936

When you try to "build & run" your app on Gear VR, it will cause the error
"OperationFailedException: No activity in the manifest with action MAIN..."

Thus, to edit or develop your game, you can delete this file Assets/Plugins/Android/AndroidManifest.xml. This way you can build & run or test your app as you've used to.

And when you are ready to publish on the Oculus Store, you can THEN do Tools > Oculus > Create store-compatible AndroidManifest.xml.

 

This worked for me on the Oculus Go with Unity 2017.4.6. Thanks, Truthveyor.

 

I'm glad it helped, NOAA_jeff. In fact, I'm about to push my app onto Oculus Go myself, so I'm glad to know it worked for you.

 

I'm just disabling the custom manifest in the publishing settings for the debug build and whenever need to build a store package - check the box and the manifest will be applied for that particular package only.